Captain Sanjay Sudan had filed the suit against Kingfisher Airlines seeking recovery of around Rs 13 lakh (Rs 1.3 million), his outstanding salary for three months from the airline.
The company had dent of about Rs 14,070 crore.
Goa's second airport began operations last week and if all goes according to plans, the state will be the base for a new regional airline, Fly91. Promoted by the ex-executive vice-president of now grounded Kingfisher Airlines, Manoj Chacko, and Fairfax India's former head, Harsha Raghavan, the airline will offer no-frills buy on board product and serve unconnected routes with two ATR 72 aircraft. An application for the initial no-objection clearance was filed with the civil aviation ministry last week.
Various airlines, including the defunct Kingfisher, owed Rs 3,030 crore (Rs 30.30 billion) to the Airports Authority of India (AAI) at the end of December last year.
Jet Airways faces similar setback.
Airline's lenders to meet next week to discuss next move.
Mallya holds a 32.86 per cent stake in United Breweries, after having ceded control to Dutch brewer Heineken in December last year.
Kingfisher Airlines, promoted by Vijay Mallya whose other group entities included United Breweries, owe close to Rs 7,000 crore to 17 banks.
A section of the employees of the grounded Kingfisher Airlines on Thursday went on a hunger strike at the Kingfisher House in Mumbai, demanding immediate payment of salaries, which have been pending since last August.
Kingfisher Chief Executive Sanjay Aggarwal met officials at the ministry of civil aviation to discuss the revival plan, which was earlier rejected by the regulator.
Kingfisher chief executive officer Sanjay Agarwal met Director General of Civil Aviation Arun Mishra in New Delhi for 45 minutes to apprise him of the prevailing scenario facing the airline, but sources said he gave no information about any commitment by the airline's parent company, UB Group, on financing the revival plan.
The employees of the grounded Kingfisher Airlines, who have not been paid for eight months now, on Wednesday threatened to file a winding up petition in the court under the Company's Act, if the management did not share its revival plan with them.
The parent company, UB Group, is willing to pump in money.
Embattled Force India team boss Vijay Mallya made his Indian Grand Prix entrance in combative mood on Saturday, lashing local media for their coverage of his business troubles and grounded Kingfisher airline.
The Service Tax Department here has impounded an aircraft of the grounded Kingfisher Airlines for defaulting tax dues amounting to Rs 63 crore (Rs 630 million), officials said on Tuesday.
The suggestion comes within days of reports that LIC and the Employee Provident Fund Organisation snapped up the entire Rs 7,400-crore (Rs 74-billion) bond issue of the debt-ridden Air India.
It said a meeting would be held with the airline's management soon.
Says will allow winding-up petition of aircraft lessors in case it fails to do so.
The SBI chief said the bank was comfortable on the liquidity front.
Kingfisher Airlines needs to invest at least Rs 2,000 crore to restart its operations, said one of its lender SBI's Chairman Pratip Chaudhuri.
Kingfisher had been asked to give its repayment plan in that meeting, failing which the lenders would not be shy of starting the process to sell its assets pledged with them, bankers said.
Lenders had asked the management to come up with a revival plan and $1 billion capital infusion.
Deal will help the Diageo to ramp up its presence in the global whiskey market and Vijay Mallya to repay debts of its group company Kingfisher Airlines.
Mallya and his UB Group companies, including Kingfisher Finvest, held a 32.12 per cent stake in the airlines as of September.
The objections were filed after Airbus failed to repay Rs 196 crore, availed by the aircraft-making company on behalf of Mallya-controlled Kingfisher Airlines
Tag for defaults on nearly Rs 7,000 cr loans to long-grounded Kingfisher Airlines
Troubled Indian businessman Vijay Mallya is set to make a rare public appearance in the United Kingdom on Friday when he is scheduled to attend the team bosses press conference ahead of the Formula 1 British Grand Prix.
Mallya and his group firms are already facing a probe by Enforcement Directorate for alleged diversion of loans taken by long-grounded Kingfisher Airlines
The tax authorities have been piling pressure for a long time against Mallya and on Kingfisher Airlines to cough up the dues.
Price has been fixed at Rs 85.3cr
United Bank of India has asked Vijay Mallya and three other directors of grounded Kingfisher Airlines to appear before a panel of the bank at the head office in Kolkata on July 9.
The indirect tax department on Thursday hinted that Vijay Mallya, owner of the grounded Kingfisher Airlines, may face prosecution in a service tax evasion case.
In a disclosure to the markets, United Spirits has said it is awaiting information from UB Holdings for determining the treatment in the company's accounts of the loan together with applicable interest accrued until March 31, 2014.
Kingfisher House is one of the prime real estates of the airline.
Sources said Mallya has also been asked to furnish documents related to his personal finances
Grounded Kingfisher Airlines has written to UCO Bank wanting to know the basis of attaching the 'wilful defaulter' tag on the carrier.
Troubled businessman Vijay Mallya claimed that he paid mere US $100 to buy Barbados Tridents, a franchise in the Caribbean Premier T20 League.
Mallya and UBHL now hold a little over 3.3 per cent in USL.
For almost all the properties owned by Vijay Mallya, the reserve price has been marked down after the earlier attempts failed to attract bidders.
A local court in Hyderabad has issued four more non-bailable warrants (NBWs) against businessman Vijay Mallya after he failed to appear in a court here in connection with alleged dishonour of cheques amounting to Rs 2 crore (Rs 20 million) to GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd.
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